Alice* says she feels “not in the slightest” guilty about using ChatGPT to complete training tasks, saying it is easy to get away with as long as you instruct chatbots to avoid the usual telltale signs of AI output, like a preponderance of em-dashes. “It’s only the sloppiest of users that get caught,” she says. “Anyone with a modicum of awareness around AI hallmarks can tell their output not to use them, and at that point what are you going to do?”
Another worker, Bob*, worked for a training platform called Outlier. Initially, he was tasked with AI training, which he says he illicitly used AI for, and was then promoted to a leadership role where part of his job was to catch others doing the same thing.
These workers are normally employed by third parties, rather than AI companies directly, and are often working without full-time contracts and for low pay. That can incentivise them to take shortcuts
Capitalism and the free market is so efficient!
Throwing themselves upon the wheels
Nice
Maybe if we force feed the Sloppies their own slop, they’ll slop themselves to death! Fight slop with slop.
Yup. LLMs won’t go away unless and until they collapse in on themselves, so I say let’s accelerate it.
For anyone else reading, this plan is pretty naive. They’d just cut back to an earlier, un-poisoned model and be far more careful about who trains them, and how. Even if the general public briefly loses trust in the whole concept, that’s not where the money is anyway.
That sounds expensive.
There aren’t any models that aren’t poisoned somehow
Shhh…You’re ruining the mob’s fantasy!
Dead AI Theory?
Model collapse is the technical term
No, model collapse is the result. The process is more like if the Human Centipede was an ouroboros and also a vampiric fractal Markov chain.
We actually made an ouroboros. Hooray
Don’t worry, the tech bros sold the gullible execs on no more employees, just profits and so our entire economy is now based on completely unrealistic profit assumptions and circular lending dependencies that will collapse when the bubble inevitably bursts. Somehow this will harm the poor the most.
Maybe we can kick the can down the road so biosphere collapse gets us first.
Lol. Lmao even
“Management vacillated between light tolerance to outright banning,” says Bob. Workers at Outlier would be tracked with a tool called Hubstaff which takes screenshots of their desktop at random intervals to ensure they are really doing tasks as ordered. Bob would look for evidence of AI models in those screenshots.
Just point a webcam at the screen of the computer, OCR the text, feed that to an LLM, and have it type via a KVM. Limit the typing speed to human level typing. I bet there are farms in French Guiana and similar places where they do exactly this.
You don’t need the OCR step… a lot of LLM models come with “vision” They can transcribe your shaky mobile phone pictures and do their slop thing in one step. You could even wire up an output tool MCP style that feeds the slop back via keyboard USB. The perfect Slop Centipede
Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.
God I wish I could sleep
Ups the model collapsed.
Reminds me of the movie Multiplicity, clones of clones just getting dumber
To be fair…
I do like pizza
Gary? Gary!
We can tell. This method definitely reflects the quality (or lack thereof) in the output.
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Bring on the Singularity!
